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Buck22,
That was a good question about live players running bad. Alot of people seem to think they run worse online than they do live and more freguently hit these downswings. I completely think both points are true but for different reasons than most posters here. In my own experience, I play 3 tables at a time when im playing cash games. That is close t0 300 hands an hour. If I put in a pretty hard day I can get2,000 hands in. If I played live it would take close to a week of 8 hour play to get that many hands in. Couple that with the fact that players online play alot looser than most live players. Some guys will make any move at any time, not worrying about being embarrassed because they are hidden behind a computer screen. So in one hour online you see almost 10x more hands and play with much looser players, in that one hour you should expect to see alot more beats than at an hour of live. As far as downswings go, I think online players are more susceptible to huge downswings. If you are playing on 3 tables, almost 5 hands a minute, your swings will come alot quicker. Losing 2-3 buy ins live doesn't happen easily, you either have to make some horrible plays or just get totally coolered. You might lose that much over the course of a bad night. If you are a multi table internet player you might lose two buy ins in the first 20 minutes. Then things start to fall apart and before you know it you're down 6 buy ins. Obviously upswings can come un just as fast. I used to prefer live to online until I started multi tabling and realized you can make alot more money playing online. That is why I don't like it when people act like they KNOW it's rigged or something. Internet poker has done alot for the poker world as a whole and it gives earning power to people all over the world who don't live near a casino.
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